Details of a planned overhaul of the resident- oriented MyRossmoor.com website has received a generally favorable initial response from a group with much to gain from the website’s success – the Rossmoor Activities Council and its member clubs. In addition to changes designed to make basic information easier to find – most of it with no more than t...

Policy Committee recommends updated harassment policy, forming new task force for KPI The RWC Policy Committee last week voted to recommend updates to Rossmoor’s policy to protect residents, staff and vendors from various forms of harassment, as well as updates to policies outlining how it’s determined whether a violation of Rossmoor rules occurred...

Garden Club member known for growing giants Gene Widdel is known fondly as “The Pumpkin Man” by his fellow Rossmoor Garden Club members. It’s been a tradition for Widdel to grow some mighty big pumpkins at his lot at the Rossmoor Gardens. When October and Halloween roll around, those treasures typically have been doled out dutifully to his four gra...

Members request capital budget funds for work Members of the Rossmoor Tennis Club last week implored the RWC Planning Committee to put repairing the Buckeye tennis courts – two of its eight courts in particular – on a list of priority projects for 2026. Bart Ostro, a Tennis Club member, asked the committee to consider recommending that $250,000 be ...

Series of workshops will feature variety of topics esidents will have an opportunity to share their feedback for the new MyRossmoor website during a series of workshops in ROctober and early November. Focus groups are being assembled to help staff make content and design decisions for the revamped MyRossmoor residents’ site. Pages and information c...

Twenty-five years ago, Dirk Meyer’s job was to help maintain industrial sewage treatment systems. So when representatives of Rossmoor’s wastewater treatment provider came inside the gate for a public session to explain what they do, Meyer made sure to be there. “I’m interested in repair and maintenance … it doesn’t WASTEWATER: Central San board mem...

EPO fair shares many ways to be ready Oddly, there’s often a timely reminder of the importance of emergency preparedness. A few days before the Rossmoor EPO (Emergency Preparedness Organization) held a wide-ranging emergency preparedness fair, an overnight 4.3 earthquake centered in Berkeley woke many in Rossmoor and the surrounding area out of a s...

Staging for the first construction work connected with the new pickleball facility is set to begin the week of Oct. 13, and that will bring some temporary changes both to the 18th hole of the adjacent Dollar Ranch Golf Course, and to the parking lot that serves both the Event Center and Dollar Clubhouse. During the week of Oct. 13, the 25 or so par...

Rossmoor’s fifth annual Diversity Festival will be held Tuesday, Oct. 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Event Center. (Note the start and end times are half an hour later this year.) The festival is an opportunity to explore and celebrate the many cultures represented in Rossmoor that contribute to the richness of living where we do. All that ...

S ilicon Valley Paving will be repaving several sections of roads in Rossmoor from Monday, Oct. 13 through Wednesday, Oct. 21, weather permitting. The biggest impacts are expected Monday, Oct. 13 and Tuesday, Oct. 14, when crews will repave the inbound lanes of Rossmoor Parkway between the entry gate and Golden Rain Road, as well as Golden Rain Roa...